On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:02:30PM -0000, Louis Mushandu wrote:
> I am still having problems with authentication.
> 
> 
> 1. The path of the checkpassword is correct.
> 2. Am I suppsoe to be using checkpoppassword as was suggested.  

Not if you're using the standard qmail. Are you using the latest
checkpassword from cr.yp.to?

> 3. Ownership is correct.
> 4. pop3 is being run from inetd.

And what of the tests I suggested earlier. How did they go?


Regards.

> 
> 
> Any ideas.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Mushandu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 05 December 2000 20:55
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: POP3 - Why does it not authenticate.
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I cannot for the life of me get the password authenticaton running as
> evidenced below.  
> 
> 
> Can anyone help.
> __________________________________
> 
> 
> [root@mail /root]# telnet 0 110
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user mcuser01
> +OK 
> pass mcuser123
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> pop3     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
> qmail-popup mail.mongrel.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
> Maildir
> 
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